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Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes

I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: March 3, 1962

Topics

Team Tough Going Sights Olympic Set

In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

College Chemistry Degree Oxford

In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Failure Truth Politics Bad Risk Out

I actually like the sort of industrial, working-class woman like Rosie the Riveter, so I'm kind of like the sort of street style of the '50s.

Style Woman Kind Street Industrial

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

Society Understand More Little Needs

I use the computer as a tool. Like chance or the camera or the other tools I've used, it can open my eye to other ways of seeing or of making dances. It's not simply to do a trick.

Merce Cunningham

Eye Chance Tools Camera Seeing Open

The modern economics of the newsroom don't support big investigative reporting staffs.

Support Economics Big Modern

Nobody wants to be in a position of defending anything Fox might do for minorities.

Nobody Fox Position Anything Wants

We must fight and win the battle against terror overseas so we never have to fight it here at home.

Home Fight Win Battle Never Against

You know you're a fool when what you're doing makes even the post office seem efficient.

Fool Doing You Know Office Seem

I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania.

School High School Back I Can Say

I never thought that I'd be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that.

Me Thought Role Model Kind Never

I hated 'Avatar' from the jump. And I like James Cameron. I'm not opposed to James Cameron.

Jump Like Hated Avatar James

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